Michigan State University Science Festival

The MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE FESTIVAL RETURNS!SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 10:45 - 11:15 AM - Science Festival Opening Ceremony At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility West Entrance Steps 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Life Beneath the Naked Eye At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2004 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Hands-On Look at How Climate Change Affects Plants At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Kid's-Eye View of the Microscopic World At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Smashing Time with Nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Alka-Seltzer Rockets At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility First Floor, South Lobby 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - All About Groundwater: Saginaw's Aquifer in a Cup At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - All Water is Connected and Ours to Protect At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Amazing Animal Adaptations At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Animal Brain Scanner At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Animal Brains At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Aquatic Ecology At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Are Cats Taking Over the World? How You Can Help At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Are You the Next Olympic Athlete? Learn How to Measure Movement and Motor Skills At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Biosystems Engineering Research and Design Showcase At Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Bouncing Bubbles At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain Break At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain in Your Gut At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain Puzzle At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Build Your Own Forest! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Build Your Own Planet or Asteroid! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Building Station At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Celebrate Arbor Day with Michigan DNR At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Chromatography Butterflies At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Color a Brain At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Communicating Science Across Cultures At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Communication Station At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Create a Critter At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Critter Collectors: Fieldwork Exploration Zone At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Defeat the Robots! Save the Day by Escaping the Robot Guards! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Digging the Past: Archaeology on Campus At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Discover Great Lakes Food Webs and Predators: Why Are Fish Important? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - DNA: The Small But Berry Important Molecule At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, North Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Do Microbes Shape Your Brain? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Dress Like a Neuroscientist At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Experience Medical Laboratory Science! At North Kedzie Hall 3rd Floor 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Experiment with the Principles of Supercomputing Through a Video Game At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore Medical Laboratory Science! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First floor, East wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore the Nuts and Bolts of MSU's Supercomputer! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore the World of Artificial Intelligence with MSU’s Supercomputer At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Adaptations of the Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Plant Cells At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring the Science of Light At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Face Painting At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Fingerprinting using chemistry At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Fish You Well: What Zebrafish Can Teach Us About Development and Disease At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Food Science, Human Nutrition, and Your Health At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Outdoors, West Entrance 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - From Door Knobs to Phone Screens: Identifying Microbial Contaminants in Daily Life At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - GATE At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Get a Kick Out of Chemistry! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Get Your Hands Dirty: The Science of Soil Judging At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Go with the Flow: Exploring the Movement of Water! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Goofy Goggles At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Heredity Mix and Match At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3201 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Herpetology Club: Reptiles Alive! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Homemade Physics At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Human Brains At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Hungry Hungry Neurons At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Is Your Duck Lucky? How to Prevent Stormwater Pollution At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Laser Tweezers: Reach Out and Grab Bacteria! At Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building B149 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Leaf Lessons: An Exploration of Leaf Shapes and Sizes At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Life Without Water At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Lithography: How Chemistry Makes Tiny Computer Chips At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Make a Neuron At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Map-Making with the MSU Museum At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Marshmallow Structures At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mass Spectrometry: A MASSive Molecule Decoder At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - MI Diaries: Tell your Story for Linguistic Analysis At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mi Water Source! Enviroscape Education Demonstration At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mindfulness At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mirror Tracing At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Molecular Diffusion: Just a Bunch of Collisions! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Nervous Breakdown At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility 3rd Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Neuron Discovery Station At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Nuclear Science in Photos: Insider's View of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Ocean Guardians—Learn About Sharks and How You Can Protect Them At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, North Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Oozing Oobleck: Fun With Biological Materials At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Parkinson's Perspective At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Day in the Life At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Phantastic Physics! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Physician Associates: What Can They Do? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plant Genome Investigators At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plants Get Sick Too! Exploring Plant Pathogens with S.P.O.R.E. At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plasma Propulsion: The Future of Space Travel At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Play a Potato Piano: Learn About Circuits with the East Lansing Public Library's Wonder Lab! 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Playing with Proteins: Visualizing Biomolecular Machines! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Pollination and Seed Dispersal At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Protect Your Brain At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Race for Perfection At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Radioactive! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Ramp and Roll At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Random Rolls, Smooth Spins: Revealing the Secrets of the Bell Curve At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Reaction Time At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Robotics at Your Fingertips At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Salt Science: Why Crystals Form Perfect Cubes At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - See a Cow Eye Close-Up! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Sensory Bins At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Soil: A Medium for Life and Art At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Spin, Shoot, Stretch: Physics on the Table At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Spine Model At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - STEAM Plays: Using the Arts to Talk About STEM At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - STEM and Nature Activities with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Stop the Reef Thief`! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Texture Wall At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The "Hidden Water" We Use Every Day At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The "Hidden Water" We Use Every Day At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Cellular Life of Plants: Seeing the Green World Through a New Lens At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Joy of Robot Painting At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Magic of Migration At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Nose Knows At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Quantum Zone At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Wonders of Human Physiology At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Touch & Perception At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Triangle Trials: Motor Skills in Action At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - What's in the Box? A Hands-On Investigation of Scientific Practice At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - What's Inside a Plant? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - When to Go to the ER At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Why do Bananas Smell So Good? How Plants Make Themselves A-peel-ing! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Birds and Mammals in Cherry Orchards: Are They Helping Farmers? At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage 12:15 - 12:45 PM - How to Turn the Tide on Plastics Pollution At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage 1:00 - 1:30 PM - Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream! At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Nothing Galling Here! The Science of Oak Gall Ink At Main Library 1:00 - 4:00 PM - Makerspace Open House At MSU Main Library 1:45 - 2:15 PM - Butterfly Bonanza: The Ecology and Conservation of Michigan's Well-Loved Insects At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Red Cedar River Environmental History Walking Tour At MSU Main Library 2:30 - 3:00 PM - AI School: An Introduction to Machine Learning At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage 3:15 - 3:45 PM - The Story of Supercomputing: A Graphic Novel and Silicon Petting Zoo At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage